Wondering when Bethesda is going to hop aboard the Battle Royale bandwagon with 100-player Fallout 76 elimination matches, or a version of Skyrim where you airdrop onto an island and start hunting other Dragonborn? It'll likely never happen, according to Pete Hines, SVP of Bethesda's global marketing and communications (who you've no doubt seen during Bethesda's E3 presentations). Speaking with GamesRadar+, Hines explained what he looks for in successful game pitches, and he's none too keen on copying the latest trend.

"If it's like 'Well, these guys did this, so we're gonna do this,' I can't stay awake. 'Hey, here's our Battle Royale game!' No thank you. Not even remotely interested. That's not who we are as Bethesda; that's not how we've gotten to where we are over the last 30-odd years. And honestly, I think our devs know better than to say 'Oh, we're just gonna riff off of something that somebody else is doing.'"

Hines cites Bethesda's virtual card game The Elder Scrolls Legends as a recent example. "If it was just a true Hearthstone clone, I wouldn't have been interested," he says. "But I thought it was something different and unique, with the two lanes and the variety in terms of the colors and how the decks work. I thought it sat in a really interesting spot on the spectrum of strategy card games, from super simple to really complicated and everything in between, that I just liked where we are. Those are the kinds of things that I think get us, as a company, excited."

Sure, the horse armor was shitty...but it was also part of the first batch of DLC when it was an entirely new concept. It was also 12 years ago.

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Originally Posted by Terran

So is suing 14-year-olds for reselling a game.

Way to go Bethesda!

They didn't sue anyone; they just sent a cease-and-desist letter.

It's still a really bad look and could lead to all sorts of issues regarding resale of their games. They took issue with it being listed as "new"; while the game was still sealed, they purported that it could have been re-shrinkwrapped.

I'm sure people will just list 'em as "sealed" or "unopened", rather than "new". Either way, Bethesda is grossly overstepping their bounds.

Shut up Pete, try making a Fallout game that is actually Fallout and stop rereleasing the same Elderscroll game over and over with how many special editions Skyrim now has. Rather than threatening to sue over a copy of a game that bombed to begin with.